Whenever people hear "west coast" they automatically think of California, the other two major cities that share the pacific coastline is my city #PDX (Portland, Oregon) and Seattle in Washington. Portland is right next to the border of Washington, very close but very different at the same time. My city is slowly turning into a place that isn't safe to live in, the drug addiction here is on a whole other level, the homeless problem is getting worse and black people are becoming so rare here, I feel isolated. It's no coincidence when gentrification went into full swing about 35 years ago, the living conditions went to shit. A lot of people are what we call "transplants" not native to Portland, they moved here from another city that went to shit, now they are bringing their bullshit to my city. It's sad to see, I really miss how beautiful Portland was...
Portland is on pace to see more shootings this year, following a record-setting year for gun violence in the Rose City in 2021. Mayor Ted Wheeler and law enforcement leaders spoke Thursday morning, addressing the spike in shootings in the city. Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said for 2022...
Lia Thomas has become the first transgender athlete to win a National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championship - with her controversial victory attracting a mixed reception.
The UPenn swimmer, 22, won the 500 yard freestyle in Atlanta in a time of 4 minutes, 33.24 seconds on Thursday evening.
Afterwards, the crowd were notably more enthusiastic when cheering for the woman who'd come second place - Emma Weyant, of the University of Virginia. She swam 4:34.99.
While Thomas was given some cheers, boos could also be heard ringing out throughout the spectator stands, as she continues to face allegations that going through male puberty has given her an unfair advantage over her rivals.
'I try to ignore it as much as I can, I try to focus on my swimming what I need to do to get ready for my races and I just try to block out everything else,' said Thomas after the race, when asked by ESPN about the response.
Thomas, 22, became on Thursday night the first transgender athlete to be crowned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion
The transgender swimmer won her 500 yard freestyle, representing the University of Pennsylvania, in 4 minutes 33:24 seconds
Her victory was greeted with a notable lack of cheers in the stands, amid the controversy: she competed in men's competition until 2019
On the podium, Thomas was given the medal amid boos and some cheers: by contrast, the second placed competitor was given a huge cheer at her crowning
Thomas told ESPN after the race that she tried to drown out the controversy and focus on her swimming
This is a dope breakdown that makes it simple to see how entertainers get fleeced. This is why it’s important to known when to look at entertainment as a business and when to look at it as an art. In simple math:
So your $100 can end up being $30 before you even do one thing to fulfill the contract. Be smart when negotiating and don’t do business when you’re high or drunk.
The Professor (as always) hit this one on the head. Things ARE going to start heating up for WS Police nationwide.
Last week a lot of racists were celebrating, now they're angrier than ever. While Jussie Smollett won't get my support, but we need to remember this was ALL a proxy operation by the Chicago PD union and the white media to pretend a false police report was as significant and as bad as all the black people the police have been murdering.
I wonder if all of this was just a dog and pony show.
BREAKING NEWS: Court orders Jussie Smollett be RELEASED from jail during his appeal after just six days in prison
Disgraced 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett will be released from jail after just six days behind bars
Judges ruled that he should go free while his lawyers work on the appeal of his conviction on five felony counts of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack.
He will be released on a $150,000 personal recognizance bond.
Smollett, who has been serving his time in psychiatric care, was sentenced to 150 days behind bars.
An appeals court ordered Jussie Smollett be released from jail on bond pending the appeal of his conviction. The actor was convicted of lying to Chicago police about being the victim of a hate crime back in 2019.
This morning's Moment of Truth addressed the upcoming lawsuit of Chris Cuomo, and how he plans to sue CNN for terminating after he attempted to aid his brother the former Governor of New York (Chris Cuomo), while under investigation himself. Professor Black Truth documented how Chris is now taking aim at Don Lemon(ade), his former bromance partner, and further exposed how Don was texting Juicy Smellit, while he was being questioned by Chicago PD as part of Cuomo's complaint. This MoT was a forecasting to how CNN intends to break its tool similar to how TBA predicted how the GOP would break Herschel Walker, Do you all think we will see Lemonade on BNC anytime soon?
It seems like more and more younger people have health issues. I for one have issues with pain. Have had neck and back troubles since I was 22. I also have anxiety and trouble with sleep. I am working on getting healthier but I understand it is a process. I feel like because of all this, it has kept me held back in life. I just don't know where my life will be in 5 years. I don't want to end up even more unwell though and suffering. I want a quality life.
I saw some posts floating around of the sorts of people Disney hires down in Florida. A lot of them are getting busted for pedo behavior whether it be trying to hook up with kids or having children pornography on their phones and computers. I feel like we need to keep an eye out for this. Don't let your children consume Disney products that have not been properly vetted.
MOTHER TERESA WAS A CHILD TRAFFICKER, FUNNELING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE VATICAN
We all know the name Mother Teresa. She won a Nobel Peace Prize for her so-called humanitarian work and founded the Missionaries of Charity. When she was on her world tour she gathered millions (rumored to be billions) of dollars from the rich, because they foolishly believed that she would be able to help the poor and suffering in India. Many people would believe that India was and currently is eternally grateful to her. How wrong they are! But what did she really do with all that money? It surely wasn’t used to improve the conditions of the suffering. Mother Teresa was not a living saint and in fact was somewhat morally corrupt — with a lot of evidence. Mother Teresa’s money was mostly spent on funding Pedophilia and child rape, and not on the poor. She built a hundred facilities all over the world with her name and organization ‘Missionaries of Charity’ on each one. Most of them were nunneries and Papist-run children’s homes, where millions of children were abused, beaten and sodomised on a daily basis. Many of these children were brainwashed and conditioned into cult-like-thinking, to make them act like her, thus sprang her “cult of suffering.” Ever wondered why the Catholic Church rushed to canonize Mother Teresa after her death? Turns out she was a child trafficker, selling babies & funneling between $50-100 million/year to the Vatican. Mother Teresa’s connections include Baby Doc Duvalier, the Haitian dictator, Saving’s and Loan criminal Charles Keating, and Robert Maxwell, the father of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.
WELCOME TO THE FALL OF THE FALSE IDOLS: We all know the name Mother Teresa. She won a Nobel Peace Prize for her so-called humanitarian work and founded the Missionaries of Charity. When She was on …
Yeah it's funny cause my best friend and I switched places in the sense that when we were younger I wanted to have a family and he wanted no kids and now he is talking about how he wants a daughter and I don't want to have a single child. I just don't see myself as a father, I see myself more like a uncle and i am the only boy in my family so when I was discussing this with my mom she was praying that I have a family so in short at this moment in time i don't want any children Am i the only one that is dealing with this ?
This is so disrespectful. How he stands there and lies right in front of our face. Gas prices started going up as soon as he started cancelling drilling leases pipelines and adding regulations on fracking.
This Russia scare tactic is horrible and I hope we make him feel it in the midterms.
I've been watching this guy's videos for a few years what he basically does is spy on India scam call centers. He'll access their CCTV cameras and laptop cameras and audio, and some of the videos he will intercept calls to the victims of the fraud being played on them and explain to them that they are being mailed out of their money. I've seen him destroy a whole call centers phone system and all their computers. He'll release a ton of viruses on each computer and they will be forced to wipe the drives and start over. He can even pinpoint their location. If one guy can do this from his home... imagine what the U.S. Gov. can do. The stuff you see in the movies isn't all made up. take the time and watch this dude. There's another dude I check out he goes buy #1 Russian Hacker he does the same thing, taps into scam call centers, and destroys their systems, I've seen him do this to Nigerian scammers, it's hilarious.
Doesn’t this threat seem a bit scary? He tells the thief to bring the stuff back or else but that or else seems suspect. He says he will call Door Dash and the Police but I really think he gonna get some head bussas to line him up.
Yo’ if you on 6ZEROS my man just take the shit back. It ain’t worth it.
Throughout my time living in the DC area, most of it has been very joyful, especially when I get to go out to Baltimore or down to see family in VA or SC, nothing short of a good time. One thing that I have continuously ran into is haggling shoppers in the DC area, I mean black (looking) people haggling black merchants over the price of their service (how dare you n$gga). I've only seen this with black men, given that I'm mostly around black men, but even then, I don't ask about the price unless it involves a clearance or some type of sale. I was headed to the gym and looking work off some this thanksgiving food when the black (looking) guy in front of me starts to haggle over the price of his membership, so that he could bring a guest. I took all of 5mins before I said, "May I sign in?", (I promise the verbiage was a lot nicer), I understand if you think you're getting worked over as a shopper but to continuously haggle and not be able to barter, aggravates me to the core. What say you?
This morning's coffee with The Professor took an interest turn, we were given a brief video sample of an interview Joy Reid conducted with the only Biracial Ukranian Politician and Athlete Zhan Belenuik, during the interview Zhan (alongside MP Oleksandra Ustinova) goes out of his way to deny racism of any kind (as opposed to his Reuter's Interview 7 months ago). Sadly, as voiced by The Professor in the broadcast, the jokes we tell among each other about the Bootlicks always bear true, and Mr. Belenuik may have sealed his own fate by denying full blown racism itself. Furthermore, it's also why we instruct each other to be honest about our condition domestically, as well as internationally, so that we may produce the most constructive and judicious results for future generations.
After nearly two years under the current administration, I am now fully convinced that Terry Crews' character President Camacho from the movie Idiocracy was a reenactment of VP Harris from her time as DA in SFCA. In the movie President Camacho was so intellectually deficient, he made the main character Joe Bauers (JB) look like a patron saint that came to save America (Camacho literally had the citizens watering their crops with a Monster Stand-in energy drink, that looked more like radiator fluid). I am under no pretense telling anyone to go and view the movie (the trailer is in the hyperlink), but if you do want a good laugh at Pre-CoonTrain Crews, go for it. Also go comb-over her most cringeworthy interviews
I imagine many of you saw the title and shook your head in agreement and might have even said “straight facts” under your breath. I actually didn’t plan to write this piece. I was one and done with The Liberals That Cried Black Lives Matter. However, my new work situation gave birth to this article because…you guessed it, I work with Karens. Now our understanding of “the Karen” in a more general sense is the white woman who weaponizes her whiteness in an attempt to threaten and intimidate black people into submitting to the “all-powerful white supremacy”. The workplace Karen is slightly different, but not by much. She’s not trying to literally murder YOU for disobeying her…just your career. For this discussion, we’ll be speaking specifically about co-workers, as corporate superiors are a whole other pandora’s box for another discussion.
Karens Always Know What They Are Doing
Before we get into it, let’s be clear about one thing, WHITE PEOPLE ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING. These people are born, raised and trained by both their families and society to believe they are superior to black folks in any and all facets of life. Anyone telling you or who has told you differently, is a fool, a coon or both. Point blank PERIOD. Brandi Suttles wrote about this in her piece “A Notice to Workplace Karens”, on Medium. (Sidenote: If you can ignore her cringe-worthy use of ‘BIPOC’ over simply saying ‘Black’, there’s good content in the article.) It points out the power dynamic white people expect in the workplace when dealing with Black co-workers. Now in her situation, she was the experienced employee trying to help a new white employee. In my situation, I’m the new employee, having previous office experience, with a white co-worker whose ONLY office experience is where we’re working now.
My workplace Karen #1(we’ll name her WK1) has been in our department the longest of any other employee(3.5 years), but has never held an office job outside of the organization (her previous work was at a statewide-only supermarket chain as a cashier). She brings a lot to the table in terms of understanding the organizational processes due to her long tenure. So in an environment with extremely high turnover, she’s become, haphazardly, invaluable. However, in working with her these last 2 months, WK1 is not the most operationally efficient employee. She does twice as much work when half as much will do. I’ve made suggestions to help streamline things and she has “fifty-leven” excuses for why it won’t or can’t work.
None of which are impressive or strong points mind you, especially considering the departmental and, more to the point, organizational mantra is “We don’t get paid enough to care.” So if you don’t get paid enough to care, then the least you can do for yourself is make your workday easier while you’re here for the 40 hours you’re exchanging for pay. But let’s face it, the real issue was SHE didn’t think of any of it. Meanwhile, in her little troglodytic brain, she’s thinking “This black chick has been here for 5 mins, coming in here trying to change things. Who the hell does she think she is?” What I THINK is that it’s obvious I’m more innovative and solutions-driven than you are, but I digress.
Let The Micro-Aggressions Begin
So without any further ado, let’s begin with the microaggressions. For those not hip, microaggressions are little seemingly innocent questions, comments, quips that white people say for nefarious purposes like: make us look stupid and incompetent, or fish out information to see “what kind of black person we are.” The wizardry of it all, is that these statements are disguised as absent-minded enough where the average joe who isn’t proficient in the art of white supremacy’s microaggressions would blow it off and suspect the white person “didn’t mean anything by it.” It starts as soon as you’re hired and you walk into the office to say Good Morning. Up until now, you might have thought they were the simple get to know you questions…but ah ah ahhh what did we say? WHITE PEOPLE ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING.
Asking about your educational background? Yeah they’re trying to size you up to see if you’re smarter than them or if, in their mind, you’re “qualified” for the same job or higher, than them. Asking you what kind of music you listen to? This is not for commonality purposes. They want to know how much “black music” you listen to because this information will determine for them how “ghetto” you are. Asking questions about your family, they want to know if you fit the stereotypical broken-home-raised-black person. There are others, like asking you about certain black athletes or pop culture black celebrities that might be in the news for one thing or another (Think OJ, Cosby, Kanye), because they want to get a temperature of whether or not they can say certain things around you without getting their mouth gone up in. In conversations, they always shimmy their way into yours when it has nothing to do with them, particularly when you and other black, or non-white, co-workers are talking. Then they hijack the conversation all in the name of trying to look like the expert or authority on everything.
When you challenge or correct them on anything, they get pissy and try to “one-up” you to justify why they’re the authority on the topic. It BOTHERS them when they’re surrounded by not only educated black people, but no-nonsense, on-code black people and my WK1 is no different. Here’s a neat little micro-aggro exchange to illustrate: Depending on when you read this, this incident took place in February, bka, Black History Month. This no-black-friends-having child asks me, “Hey, do you know who Jackie Mitchell is?” “No. But I’m sure you’re going to tell me,” I responded, because that’s what I say to people who can’t take the hint that they need to just stop talking and be quiet for a little while. She then tells me, Mitchell is a female baseball player who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig(she couldn’t pronounce Gehrig’s last name btw). I say “Oh Cool,” dismissively, because I couldn’t give less than a shit if I tried.
Now for the coons in the house who earn their bones and biscuits by caping for white people, here are some quick things about me. I’m a lover of sports. I grew up playing organized, rec-league, with friends and fam, didn’t matter; I was always game for some competition. So for you bones and biscuits out there thinking “Maybe she was trying to relate to you because you like sports and thought that was a cool fact.” Yeah. No, dear. Not when you’re telling me about some WHITE woman, during BLACK HISTORY MONTH. For me that’s suspect at minimum but, as we discussed earlier, WHITE PEOPLE ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING. So I know what she was doing and WK1 knows what she was doing. She was trying to be micro-aggro about black history month.
Every year, all over the interwebs,a historical black figure is highlighted every single day in February. THIS. ISN’T. NEW. WK1 wasn’t born YESTERDAY. It’s part of the mental game she’s trying to play. I find it interesting that around the time she said this, Google Doodle had recently highlighted Toni Stone. A black woman, who was the first woman in history to play professional baseball as a regular in a men’s major baseball league. SUDDENLY, WK1, an ADMITTED NON-SPORTS FAN, whimsically wants to share this random ass information about some white female baseball player…? Naw fam, you know and I know, WK1 WENT OUT OF HER WAY to find that info about that white woman. Let’s not try to make it be anything else other than what it was.
These are the little mental-gymnastic duality games Karens play. It’s the test. They’re like little kids learning the limits of their parents. How far can they push the envelope? And if we don’t stop them dead in their tracks at this early stage, we will quickly find out they are prepping for the big one. What big one you ask? Well, look out for the next part as we discuss how Karens test how racist they can be in your presence.
Our understanding of “the Karen” is a white woman who weaponizes her whiteness in hopes to intimidate black people into submitting to the “all-powerful white supremacy”. The workplace Karen is slightly different, but not by much. She’s not trying to literally murder YOU for disobeying her...just...
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